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The Thiokol-Woodbine explosion occurred at 10:53 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, February 3, 1971, at the Thiokol chemical plant, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Woodbine, Georgia, and 30 miles (48 km) north of Jacksonville, Florida, when large quantities of flares and their components in building M-132 were ignited by a fire and detonation occurred.
OSHA also proposed the Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act of 2008, a new bill aimed at introducing regulations to reduce the risk of dust explosions. [27] The bill passed the United States House of Representatives but never passed the United States Senate. [28] In 2009 OSHA began developing a federal standard for combustible ...
This is a list of properties and districts in Houston County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as:
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Shelter-in-place recommendations and evacuation orders have been lifted Monday after a fire at a Georgia industrial plant caused a chemical reaction that prompted around 17,000 people to evacuate ...
The district around Elko, called the Old Thirteenth Georgia Military District, had been devoted mainly to cotton farming since Houston County was established in the 1820s. The Norfolk loamy sand soil which underlies the settlement and most of its surrounding area is considered to be some of the best agricultural land in Houston County.
A fire broke out at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Ga., on Sept. 29. About 17,000 people have evacuated in Rockdale County, with businesses being asked to close until the shelter-in-place is lifted
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